On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 10:56 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:00:46PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > In any case, I rebooted using SysRq+S+U+B (I think, at least - couldn't > > > see > > > anything) and installed firmware-linux-nonfree, rebooted once again for > > > good > > > measure, and tried startx again, and now it just aborts X saying: > > > > > > [ 137.038] (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed because of > > > a version mismatch. > > > [dri] This chipset requires a kernel module version of 1.17.0, > > > [dri] but the kernel reports a version of 2.12.0. > > > [dri] Make sure your module is loaded prior to starting X, and > > > [dri] that this driver was built with support for KMS. > > > [dri] Aborting.
I'm afraid that's as good as it gets. When using a display manager, it should automatically try starting the X server again, which should succeed. > > Means your radeon kernel module is not being properly loaded by udev. > > You need to figure out why. > > There's nothing strange about it, at least none that I can see. > You can see in the attached dmesg output that it worked fine. dmesg can't tell you why the kernel module wasn't loaded by udev. Usually it's due to a stale blacklist entry in the udev/modprobe configuration. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336991588.7335.212.camel@thor.local
